Hydrodynamical simulations of the galaxy population: enduring successes and outstanding challenges

RA Crain, F van de Voort - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
We review the progress in modeling the galaxy population in hydrodynamical simulations of
the ΛCDM cosmogony. State-of-the-art simulations now broadly reproduce the observed …

COSMOS-Web: an overview of the JWST Cosmic Origins Survey

CM Casey, JS Kartaltepe, NE Drakos… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the survey design, implementation, and outlook for COSMOS-Web, a 255 hr
treasury program conducted by the James Webb Space Telescope in its first cycle of …

PHANGS–ALMA: Arcsecond CO (2–1) Imaging of Nearby Star-forming Galaxies

AK Leroy, E Schinnerer, A Hughes… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We present PHANGS–ALMA, the first survey to map CO J= 2→ 1 line emission at∼ 1''∼ 100
pc spatial resolution from a representative sample of 90 nearby (d≲ 20 Mpc) galaxies that lie …

The DESI bright galaxy survey: final target selection, design, and validation

CH Hahn, MJ Wilson, O Ruiz-Macias… - The Astronomical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Over the next 5 yr, the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) will use 10
spectrographs with 5000 fibers on the 4 m Mayall Telescope at Kitt Peak National …

The art of measuring physical parameters in galaxies: a critical assessment of spectral energy distribution fitting techniques

C Pacifici, KG Iyer, B Mobasher… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The study of galaxy evolution hinges on our ability to interpret multiwavelength galaxy
observations in terms of their physical properties. To do this, we rely on spectral energy …

simba: Cosmological simulations with black hole growth and feedback

R Davé, D Anglés-Alcázar, D Narayanan… - Monthly Notices of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
We introduce the simba simulations, the next generation of the mufasa cosmological galaxy
formation simulations run with gizmo's meshless finite mass hydrodynamics. simba includes …

The evolution of the star-forming interstellar medium across cosmic time

LJ Tacconi, R Genzel, A Sternberg - Annual Review of …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Over the past decade, increasingly robust estimates of the dense molecular gas content in
galaxy populations between redshift z= 0 and the peak of cosmic galaxy/star formation (z∼ …

Star-forming galaxies at cosmic noon

NM Förster Schreiber, S Wuyts - Annual Review of Astronomy …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Ever deeper and wider look-back surveys have led to a fairly robust outline of the cosmic
star-formation history, which culminated around; this period is often nicknamed “cosmic …

First results from the IllustrisTNG simulations: A tale of two elements–chemical evolution of magnesium and europium

JP Naiman, A Pillepich, V Springel… - Monthly Notices of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
The distribution of elements in galaxies provides a wealth of information about their
production sites and their subsequent mixing into the interstellar medium. Here we …

The Dawes Review 9: The role of cold gas stripping on the star formation quenching of satellite galaxies

L Cortese, B Catinella, R Smith - Publications of the Astronomical …, 2021 - cambridge.org
One of the key open questions in extragalactic astronomy is what stops star formation in
galaxies. While it is clear that the cold gas reservoir, which fuels the formation of new stars …